Men's Tennis Hosts Penn Invitational Beginning Friday

Complete Singles Draws

Complete Doubles Draws

PHILADELPHIA - The first-ever Penn Invitational gets underway Friday morning with matches spread out over the 18 courts of the Hamlin Tennis Center and the Levy Tennis Pavilion. A total of 16 teams will be represented at the event, which features seven flights of singles and two flights of doubles play.

Action begins at 9 a.m. on Friday morning with the first round of doubles play in both brackets. Following the conclusion of those matches, two rounds of singles as well as one round of consolation singles will be completed. Play will continue on Saturday with the finals of each flight to take place on Sunday.

Penn will be represented by 13 individuals in singles and six teams in doubles. Junior co-captain Nikola Kocovic and Jeremy Court lead the way for the Red and Blue as they aim to take home Penn's first championship of the 2012 fall season.

The tournament will run from Friday through Sunday and features teams from Binghamton, Brown, Buffalo, Delaware, Drexel, Iowa, Lehigh, Minnesota, NJIT, Norfolk State, Princeton, Saint Francis (PA), Saint Joseph's, Saint Peter's and Temple, as well as the Quakers.

A complete rundown of Friday's matches is below:

Singles
Penn Flight
Nikola Kocovic vs. Peter Pello (Norfolk State)
Jeremy Court vs. Ismael Dinja (Binghamton)

Quaker Flight
Ismael Lahlou vs. Alex Frakes (St. Peter's)
Blaine Willenborg vs. Troy Beneck (Delaware)

Levy Flight
Austin Kaplan vs. Dominic Patrick (Iowa)
Vim De Alwis vs. Chris Jiminez (St. Francis PA)

Hamlin Flight
Sylvester Wee vs. Juan Parado (St. Francis PA)
Rob Wong vs. Oliver Bellomi (St. Peter's)

Ben Franklin Flight
Mark Milbrandt vs. Fabian Valdiviezo (St. Peter's)
Jason Magnes vs. Lawson Barter (St. Francis PA)

Red Flight
Lucas Andreika vs. Luccas Coutinho (St. Peter's)
Andrew Berman vs. Alex Fioravante (Drexel)
Kyle Roth vs. Samuel Lemberger (Norfolk State)

Doubles
Flight A
Kocovic/Milbrandt (Bye)
Will face winner of Da Silveira-Hill (Brown)/Gervais-Rosa (St. Francis PA) in Round of 16

Court/Roth vs. David/Vereschaga (Buffalo)
Wee/Wong vs. Hove/Mehta (Buffalo)
Kaplan/Willenborg vs. Braga/Pello (Norfolk State)

Flight B
Andreika/Magnes vs. Brondeau/Kessler (Saint Joseph's)

De Alwis/Lahlou (Bye)
Will face winner of Derene-Gelman (Delaware)/Fioravante-Saveedra (Drexel) in Round of 16